This  new play from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan features a company of 20 distinguished stage actors playing some of history’s most dynamic figures: J. Edgar Hoover; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Governor George Wallace; Senator Hubert Humphrey; Secretary of Defense Robert J. McNamara and LBJ himself.

1964: A pivotal year in American history—a landmark civil rights bill was passed, America began its involvement in Vietnam…and one man sat at the center of it all, determined to lift the country out of the ashes and rebuild it into The Great Society—by any means necessary. Hero. Bully. President. He played whatever part it took to win the day. It’s not personal, it’s just politics.
 Now playing at the Neil Simon Theatre.

BRYAN CRANSTON President Lyndon B. Johnson

Winner of  the 2014 Golden Globe® and three consecutive Emmy® Awards for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series” for his portrayal of Walter White on AMC’s Breaking Bad, Cranston holds the honor of being the first actor in a cable series, and the second lead actor in the history of the Emmy® Awards, to receive three consecutive wins. Cranston will make his Broadway debut this January playing President Lyndon Johnson in All the Way, by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Schenkkan.

ROBERT SCHENKKAN
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Know for such plays as: The Kentucky Cycle (Pulitzer Prize; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle Awards nominations and LA Drama Critics Award), By the Rivers of Babylon, The Devil and Daniel Webster, A Single Shard, and The Dream Thief

All The Way won the inaugural Edward Kennedy Award, and the National Critics Association/Steinberg Best New Play Award. Its sequel, The Great Society, premiers at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in July, 2014.

Review: Sam Tanenhaus, NY Times

Feburary 5, 2014

With his rich baritone hinting of the American West and craggy handsome looks, Bryan Cranston seems custom built to play outsize heartland characters. Where was he, you wonder, when Sam Shepard was writing “Buried Child” and “True West”? Even at his most relaxed, when he leans in and taps your knee to drive home a point, you don’t want to be caught spacing out.

Mr. Cranston did star in Mr. Shepard’s “The God of Hell” in Los Angeles in 2006 — just before his career-defining transformation into Walter White, the chemistry teacher turned drug lord and high executioner he played for five seasons on the hit AMC series “Breaking Bad.” But apart from that, he’s done relatively little theater, and none at all in New York, which raises the stakes for his Broadway debut in “All The Way,” a three-hour production in which he’s onstage as Lyndon Baines Johnson almost every minute. […continued]

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